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When will they ever perfect voice recongition?

mikedt

mikedt

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I'm always hearing and reading great things about Siri, S-voice, Google Voice, etc....

But they never seem to work properly for me....
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I was saying "Are you in Xilinhot now William" ...lucky I checked and didn't hit send. :rolleyes: ...quicker to just type it. "a sheila" is Aussie slang for a lady.

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Ever try Dragon Naturally Speaking? It's not perfect, but it'a probably the best one out there right now. My rheumatologist used it to take office visit notes, and it rarely missed a word.

I'm not easily impressed by software. I was impressed.
 
Rukbat said:
Ever try Dragon Naturally Speaking? It's not perfect, but it'a probably the best one out there right now. My rheumatologist used it to take office visit notes, and it rarely missed a word.

I'm not easily impressed by software. I was impressed.
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Yes I did a while back, and I thought it did work very well. However I was using a headset, in quiet room, and I wasn't trying to dictate words like "Xilinhot". :D However I'm now using a cellphone, in quite a noisy school office, and Xilinhot has become the city where I live, so I tend to use it a lot in messages and things. As well as many other words and names that might not be in the western English voice dictation dictionaries. I found voice recognition works very for automated telephone banking, but that's a very limited vocabulary that a system has to know and recognise, just numbers, letters and a few verbs probably.
 
I hope that Google does buy some voice recognitions companies like they are buying robotic companies. It does need to improve a lot.
 
Google now/voice works fine for me in a relatively quiet environment, however, I work in an extremely loud manufacturing facility (90db+) and it's accuracy can be hit or miss.
 
mikedt said:
.. and I wasn't trying to dictate words like "Xilinhot". :D
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I imagine that English language VR would need a bit of training to recognise non-English words .. kinda like an English speaking human being would :D

Actually recognising the words is the easy part, though: working out the meaning is rather more complex .. as anyone who's tried to use Siri will doubtless attest :rolleyes:
 
Voice works fine for the most part, however mixing languages and adding slang is going to throw it off.

I know if I asked it for directions too Llanfairpwllgwyngyll it probably wouldn't work.

Maybe Google need to add access to the Urban Dictionary. :D
 
BASED ON MY USER EXPERIENCE ONLY....EVERYONE'S MILEAGE DIFFERS...AGAIN BASED ON WHAT I HAVE EXPERIENCED ONLY.... :)


Siri works much better for me than Google ever did. :)
 
With regional accents, slang and varying speech patterns I don't know if voice recognition will ever be 100% accurate, but it will improve over time.

How is your voice recognition? I don't think most humans accurately interpret each other 100% of the time, so it's hard to expect a phone/computer to always get it right.
 
I find that voice recognition does not work well for uncommon proper nouns. Words like John or Washington work much better because they are fairly common. Your city is something that I would consider to be uncommon. I have a friend whose name is Yee Wing and when I try to say it using voice reco, it thinks I said, "you win."
 
Stuntman said:
I find that voice recognition does not work well for uncommon proper nouns. Words like John or Washington work much better because they are fairly common. Your city is something that I would consider to be uncommon. I have a friend whose name is Yee Wing and when I try to say it using voice reco, it thinks I said, "you win."
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Ok i'm dictating this reply now let's see how well it works i fink what google and sa. voice should i do is ad provision for proper nouns and apel to add them into the dictionary i've not corrected anything but i think it will be quicker if i typed it
 
kate said:
With regional accents, slang and varying speech patterns I don't know if voice recognition will ever be 100% accurate, but it will improve over time.

How is your voice recognition? I don't think most humans accurately interpret each other 100% of the time, so it's hard to expect a phone/computer to always get it right.
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Okay that's see how well dictation works on this on this reply and see how accurate it is i think the main problem is most people do have regional dialect and accent i myself have no problem with regional dialect and accent especially living in china timothy english i speak hear does a nother issue i find it how do i do punctuation if i say full stop I get full stop it's the same with comma
 
mikedt said:
a nother issue i find it how do i do punctuation if i say full stop I get full stop it's the same with comma
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Yeah that is a superior functionality that Dragon has - the ability to insert punctuation and even edit using your voice.

It wouldn't always work though for me and became infuriating. When you say 'scratch that' to delete your last phrase block and it just types 'scratch bat' or something of the ilk it sends you spare. You invariably end up reaching for the mouse.
 
davoid said:
Yeah that is a superior functionality that Dragon has - the ability to insert punctuation and even edit using your voice.

It wouldn't always work though for me and became infuriating. When you say 'scratch that' to delete your last phrase block and it just types 'scratch bat' or something of the ilk it sends you spare. You invariably end up reaching for the mouse.
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This is Google I've been dictating to, and it doesn't even capitalise proper nouns, e.g. google. :rolleyes: ...and those dictated posts were done in a quiet room. Ideal conditions in theory. BTW I'm typing this, not dictating.
 
mikedt said:
This is Google I've been dictating to, and it doesn't even capitalise proper nouns, e.g. google. :rolleyes: ...and those dictated posts were done in a quiet room. Ideal conditions in theory. BTW I'm typing this, not dictating.
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No I got that. I was just saying (not very clearly) that mobile voice recognition is missing important functionality that exists in desktop equivalents.

Maybe google should implement two modes - TEXT, where you use voice commands for dictation, punctuation and editing; and COMMAND, where you ask google questions, search, etc and submit to its seemingly rather fuzzy interpretation.

This still wouldn't resolve the problem of misinterpreted place names though. Maybe if there were a keyword command to alert google to search another language dictionary for the next word?
 
davoid said:
No I got that. I was just saying (not very clearly) that mobile voice recognition is missing important functionality that exists in desktop equivalents.

Maybe google should implement two modes - TEXT, where you use voice commands for dictation, punctuation and editing; and COMMAND, where you ask google questions, search, etc and submit to its seemingly rather fuzzy interpretation.

This still wouldn't resolve the problem of misinterpreted place names though. Maybe if there were a keyword command to alert google to search another language dictionary for the next word?
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It might be on a mobile OS, but it's using Google's mighty cloud though. It seems to have problems with even basic words... "fink"? I don't even know that one, slang? . Was supposed to be "think". If it's not online, dictation doesn't work. I love and frequently use some of Google's other services though, like Translate and Goggles. But I don't think the speech recognition stuff is not quite there yet. The Dragon products on PCs are better.
 
Now imagine having a deep heavy voice with a southern drawl to it. If I use the VR with Hangouts and keep it short and simple it works pretty good, but not if it's a long sentence.
 
Stuntman said:
English voice reco doesn't work very well for Scottish accents.
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I think Google's "English(UK)" might work best with received pronunciation, i.e. BBC English or Queen's English, or maybe what Mountain View, CA believes is English(UK)...just ask Dick Van Dyke. I'm from Cumbria, but spend a lot of my life in Bristol, West Midlands and South London, so I have a real mixed dialect, that Google seems to have problems with. Of course Google doesn't have English(Scots), English(Brummie), English(Geordie), etc.
 
A fellow engineer and good friend of mine has worked in the field of voice recognition for years. It is a very challenging endeavor.
 
i must be unique. i have a raspy redneck voice and it understands me perfectly even in a noisy room. the only 'glitch' is when i try dictating words via on-screen voice keyboard and it gets words that rhyme wrong. in other words, i try spelling out 'deer' and it places 'dear' there instead.

Autocorrect is no stranger to voice typing either. even when i audibly dictate 'Hell' it becomes 'He'll' or 'H*ll'
 
saptech said:
Now imagine having a deep heavy voice with a southern drawl to it. If I use the VR with Hangouts and keep it short and simple it works pretty good, but not if it's a long sentence.
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I have a deep voice as well. And the voice recognition on my phone also keeps up with me as long as I keep the sentences short. Anything longer and it gets confused.
 
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